The one buck limit is tough, it's hard to get motivated to go out after you have killed a buck and hunt for a doe. Our gun season is a week shorter than yours down south so I can't really blame that.

I hunt private land. We have managed it for bucks the last few years and it shows. I used to be able to go there and see 25 deer per day but lucky if I saw one buck, and then it was usually a small one. A few years ago we slaughtered the does, shot every one we were able to. Now the ratio is right but we don't see near the deer we used to, when we do the chances are that it is gonna be a good buck.

When we (Arkansas) went to the 3 pt rule and then a few years later we opened season on does we were in effect trying to manage the ENTIRE state for trophy deer. I don't know if it works statewide. So the question we must ask ourselves is do we want to see a deer behind every tree or do we want the chance to kill a trophy buck every year?